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Donut Media Put Out Their Top 10 Jet Car List – Do You Agree With Their Choices?

You want to get the attention of a human being? Introduce fire. Humans have been fascinated with fire as long as we’ve been walking upright. Fire keeps us warm and hurts us horribly. It is...

Morning Symphony: A 1973 Olds Cutlass On A Mission

“Never race anything that you are afraid to push off of a cliff.” That bite of wisdom was given to me shortly after the only time I took my Dodge Mirada to an autocross and proceeded to...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” by Butthole Surfers (1993)

As a kid, I wasn’t exactly sheltered. I was allowed to roam pretty much untethered 95% of the time, I was allowed to go and see and do more or less as I pleased. But there were two things that...

Unhinged: The Styling Evolution Of The Pickup Truck, From Workhorse To Well-Heeled

I’ve been paying attention to the backlash that has come from the new truck announcements over the past couple of weeks. We’ve gotten a refreshed pair of twins from GM, the F-series got...

Rough Start: The Home-Built Dodge Dually To Compete With Brian And Chad’s Obsessions!

So we’ve been on a dually pickup kick around here for a bit. Part of that is due to Chad’s box Chevy that he picked up and has been enjoying, but the other part is that we love dually...

Here Is Today’s Photo Update From Barrett-Jackson In Scottsdale. Cars Galore!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) It is Friday at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale and we are enjoying the hell out of this place. I have been to a lot of races, shows, conventions, and car events of all kinds,...

Here’s The Day 6 Update From The 48-Hour Camaro Build At Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale.

We’re having an awesome time at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, checking out cars, drooling over high dollar builds, and putting together the 48-Hour Camaro inside the Restoration Garage. The...

Peterbilt Produces Its 1,000,000th Truck – Huge Milestone For Legacy Trucking Brand

Peterbilt has been one of the premier names in the world of Class 8 trucking across North American since the company’s founding in 1939. Through the ups and the downs in the economy, through...

Wagon Of Win: This 1966 Impala SS 396 4-Speed Station Wagon Is BangShifty And Perfect

So let us get one thing straight, some dad walked into a Chevy dealer in 1966 and ordered a new family car. He decided to go with the big and roomy Impala station wagon. He could haul the kids, have...

Ultra4 Rigs Meet Hillclimbing! Who Wins? We All Do! (Just Kidding…The Hill Wins!)

Ultra4 racers are the kind of rigs that you see at King Of The Hammers. They are brutal units that have to survive the worst that California can throw at them, and range from UTV runners to the...

2018 Northeast Indoor Nationals Photo Coverage: Pro Street and Loads More!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – I told you we had a bunch more coverage coming your way from the East Coast Indoor Nationals, from Timonium, Maryland! This gallery is filled like a Pro...

Are We Seriously Rooting For A Hot-Rodded Suzuki Swift? Yes We Are! Watch This Little Beast Go!

You probably would recognize it better if it was called a Geo Metro, but it’s a Suzuki Swift. Or a Suzuki Cultus. Or whatever…you know what kind of car it is, they were sold all over the...

Ye Old Ripper: This 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada Is Ready To Rip Asphalt Up (And Your Face Off)

I can’t remember when the story ran, but around the late 1990s the name Jon Moss was the buzzword for “Fast GM Products”. The “Toy Box” cars, as they were referred to,...

Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!

One of the best ways to get all three of us laughing and cheering on the underdog: find the biggest car you can and make it do things it was never ever designed to do. You don’t get much bigger...